noel yu-jen

Noel Yu-Jen is a Taiwanese-American poet, translator, and vocalist from the California coast. Raised in a family of musicians, she is an artist of the borderlands and various linguistic diasporas. She received her B.A. in Spanish & American Studies from Princeton University, where she received the Theodore H. Holmes ‘51 & Bernice Holmes Poetry Prize

She is a Best New Poets 2024 Nominee, a 2022 June Poets Fellow at the Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts, and a 2023 Roots. Wounds. Words. Poetry Fellow. She is currently an MFA candidate in creative writing at the University of Virginia.

Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Sewanee Review, West Branch, diode poetry, and ghost city review, among others.

She has previously lived in Cochabamba and Brooklyn.